Rake Posted April 17, 2001 Share Posted April 17, 2001 Hi all....... I'm one of the long time lurkers, never-ever posters, that were spoken of in an over-the-weekend thread about the number of copies of CM that had been sold by BTS. That is neither here, nor there..... the situation which brings me to the board is as follows: I was playing the Villers-Bocage campaign last nite. I had the British convoy all lined up, picking them off tank by tank (whenever the smoke would clear a bit ). Unt Wittmann had just loosed a round at a Cromwell that he had bracketed and I was expecting a certain kill with this shot. Unfortunately, the round was quite a bit short; about 700 meters short. More surprisingly, the road suddenly burst into flames... no intervening vehicles, no trees or brush in the way and I certainly hope that there was no invisible building in the path of the shell. Now, rather than sitting at the rather safe range of 1200 meters, give or take, I'll have to move around the fire in order to reacquire these targets. Meanwhile, I not only lose acquisition, but I completely lose sight of the entire enemy line along the road. Anyhow, my question is "What's up with this? :confused: I presume someone has seen this before, but I haven't seen anything about it on the board. I ran a search for "Burning Roads" but it returned nothing of substance. If this is a new type of tank round, I'll have to ask for several rounds in my loadout next time my Shermans go up against Panther's or more..... it beats the heck out of popping smoke rounds that only last a turn or so. Oh, just so noone thinks I'm any crazier than I actually am, I took a series of screenshots to document this. Unfortunately, I have no way of posting them to the site. I do however have them zipped up, if someone here cares to put them up for me. TIA, Mike Oops, sorry...... just realized I posted this to the wrong board. Should have been on the General Forum [ 04-16-2001: Message edited by: Rake ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I/O Error Posted April 17, 2001 Share Posted April 17, 2001 e-mail them to me, I'll post the zip. (Or individual pics, if you prefer) swiftandrew@hotmail.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suicides-by-Steve Posted April 17, 2001 Share Posted April 17, 2001 Are you certain that the surrounding terrain around the road didn't catch on fire? The game may just assume that the surface under the road is burning (so if the road cuts through a field and a section of field catches alight, a square patch of fire springs up swallowing everything, including roads), thus making it seem as if the road was burning. Or... even better... What if two rounds collided with each other, one from Wittman, the other from the British armour? Cool.... [ 04-17-2001: Message edited by: Suicides-by-Steve ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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